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"The face of the operation is Briatore (referred to exclusively in the film by his colleagues and angry, chanting detractors as "Flavio"), an anthropomorphic radish who spends most of his time at QPR plotting to fire all of the managers."

At press time, Harbaugh had sent Michigan’s athletic department an envelope containing a heavily annotated seating chart, a list of the 63,000 seat views he had found unsatisfactory, and a glowing 70-page report on section 25, row 12, seat 9, which he claimed is “exactly what the great sport of football is all about.”

Anything in twitter-speak is tacky on its face. Hashtags have no place in the Big House, let alone on the field. A simple "Go Blue" would of course be significantly less offensive to the senses, although writing much of anything on the field still makes me less than joyous.

Let's quit trying to update with this kind of bullsh#t and be content with the way things are... this is Michigan fergodssakes

"the Spirit of Michigan...is based on a deathless loyalty to Michigan and all her ways....and a conviction that nowhere is there a better university, in any way, than this Michigan of ours" - Fielding Yost

I knew someone would say that, but I completely disagree. Everyone who wants to be on twitter is already on it, and no one will read that hashtag and start using twitter because of it.

Saying #GOBLUE promotes twitter is like saying a Nike ad promotes wearing shoes. No, people already wear shoes, Nike wants them to wear Nike shoes. People are using twitter, we might as well have them use it for Michigan's benefit.

...It sounds like they're going all out: Twitter contests and a Twitter feed during the game. Yes, it's focused on pure promotion of Michigan football, but at the same time, it's indirectly promoting Twitter and Twitter usage. There's no side stepping that. And yes, people will absolutely join Twitter over this as well as go on Twitter more than they normally do. This is the closest thing to promoting Twitter as you can get without saying "We're promoting Twitter!"

Formerly jhender85 (drastic change, no?)

Agree to disagree I guess. I don't see why M would have any interest in promoting Twitter, just promoting Michigan on Twitter.

I also see this as analogous to any organization saying "Like us on facebook." That doesn't promote facebook, because the only people who will do it are regular facebook users. But it does promote the organization, through facebook.

Like I said before, it's an indirect promotion of Twitter. With your example, like it or not (no pun intended), a company saying "Like Us on Facebook" is in a way, promoting Facebook. There's no logical way you can prove otherwise.

Like you, I do think Michigan is doing it for themselves only, and I'm not saying Michigan is overtly marketing for Twitter, or that they even give a rat's ass about Twitter. All I'm saying this is akin to me driving to work in a Dodge. I'm only concerned with getting to work on time, but at the same time, without realizing it, I'm promoting Dodge while doing it. That's all.

So, you're right, I'm right, we're all right. End of story.

Formerly jhender85 (drastic change, no?)

This is supporting Twitter in the same manner watching a video on mgoblue.com supports the company that created the video player, or buying box seats at Michigan Stadium supports all of the companies that helped built them.

If this is just for the spring game festivities and following lax match then I'm ok with it. That way people will tweet about the lax program and get the word out there. If its there against Air Force then I'll have a bone to pick with someone.